Hun, I voted for Harris, hun. The thing is, hun, I blame the people in power, hun, for running a bad campaign, hun. It was their fucking job to win, hun, and they did a shitty job, hun. So you can piss and moan at everyone else, hun, or you can turn your anger on the powerful people that let this happen, hun.

And by the way, hun, I notice you’re still not addressing the fact that Laken Riley wouldn’t have passed if the so called, “fascist opposition party,” hadn’t let 12 of their Senators roll over and vote for it, hun. So maybe, hun, you should pull your head of of the sand and demand more from your party, hun, since you seem to think they’re opposing fascism, hun.

Oh, and hun? if you think using, “hun,” is, “hunty,” maybe you should have said it, hun. Don’t ya think, hun?

No hun, I’m saying that the left are the only ones offering resistance to the fascists taking over America. You see hun, while AOC openly calls Trump a rapist and has been warning about Republican fascism for months, Pelosi claimed we needed a, “strong Republican party,” and torpedoed AOC’s bid for the oversight committee (in favor of an obscure geriatric who is literally dying of throat cancer). While Bernie has been warning about a rising oligarchy for years, hun, Schumer is calling for bipartisanship and allowing his members to vote for a racist immigration bill.

Also, hun, is very telling that you’ve sidestepped all of the substantive examplse I gave of the Democrats have enabled the flourishing fascist regime and only focused on the superficial aspects of opposing fascism. It’s almost like liberals (like you, hun) can’t imagine any kind of resistance other than a performative one. Isn’t that funny, hun?

Did he clap like a seal for fascists, hun?

What opposition? The Democrats helped pass the Laken Riley Act. Schumer is calling for bipartisanship. Biden told Trump, “Welcome Home.” The only people who didn’t go to the inauguration and clap like seals are AOC and Bernie Sanders, and one of them isn’t even a Democrat. They’re not opposition. They’re collaboration.

Fucking exactly. I was on this site a month before the election saying, “Why is she campaigning with Liz Cheney? Who is this for?” Of course, someone jumped in to explain how I didn’t understand that it was actually very smart, because each Republican that flipped was worth two votes, because Trump lost a vote and Harris gained a vote, and it was just good strategy, and blah, blah, blah…

Now that these arguments have been completely and devastatingly debunked, their proponents are looking for anyone else to blame: the handful of leftists who voted third-party or stayed home; the Arab and Latino Americans who didn’t know what was good for them; anyone who criticized their decisions or gave them anything less than their full-throated supprt. They weren’t warning them that their path was leading to their inevitable defeat! No, they must have caused their defeat! That has to be the answer, because the alternative would require self-reflection and change.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. The Democrats are very good at controlling the outcomes of their primaries, but the Republicans don’t seem as capable. They threw everything they had at stopping Trump in 2016, came up short, and then allowed him to completely restructure the party. I wonder if it might be easier for a progressive to run in an open Republican primary in a district the broader GOP isn’t trying to compete in, then try and take out the Democrat in the general. It might be more effective than primarying Democrats directly.

Help divide the left vote by making memes about the left-leaning candidate

Yeah, man, great point. I mean, I was going to say that it was the campaign’s fault for prioritizing getting Republican votes over leftists votes, like when they promised to appoint Republicans to the cabinet or did campaign events with Liz Cheney and Laura Bush, that split the left from the party and made them not want to turn out. But now that I think about it, you’re right; it was devisive memes that cost her the election, not the decisions of a national political party with billions of dollars to spend. Great point, dude, great fucking point.